Computation is now an integral part of modern science and engineering. In science, computer simulation allows the study of natural phenomena impossible or intractable through experimental means. In engineering, computer simulation allows the analysis and synthesis of systems too expensive, dangerous, or complex to model and build directly. Astronomers studying the formation of massive black holes, neuroscientists studying neural networks for human memory, mechanical engineers studying the designs of turbines and compressors, and electrical engineers studying the reliability of electronics aboard spacecraft are united both in the computational challenges they face and the tools and techniques they use to solve these challenges.
Students in the program in Scientific Computing are taught techniques for understanding complex physical, biological, and social systems. Students are introduced to computational methods for simulating and analyzing models of complex systems, to scientific visualization and data mining techniques needed to detect structure in massively large multidimensional data sets, to high performance computing techniques for simulating models on computing clusters with hundreds or thousands of parallel, independent processors and for analyzing terabytes or more of data that may be distributed across a massive cloud or grid storage environment.
Scientific Computing News
- 5/2020 ÌýScientific Computing Minor requirements revised. See the Minor Requirements page for details (click here).Ìý
- 3/2020 ÌýStudents who declared Scientific Computing before Spring 2021 will need to take an approved course from the list of elective courses to substitute for SC3250 (if they have not taken SC3250 already).Ìý
- 5/2019 ÌýBrigit Maynard Fitzgerald, 2019 graduate in the Blair School of Music with a minor in Scientific Computing, is awarded the Founder's Medal for First Honors in Blair:
- 5/2019 ÌýDavid K. Zhang, 2019 graduate in the School of Engineering with a minor in Scientific Computing, is awarded the Founder's Medal for First Honors in Engineering:Ìý
- 5/2017 ÌýJarrod Shilts, 2017 graduate with a minor in Scientific Computing, is highlighted by ×ÔοÊÓƵ News:
- 5/2016 ÌýJulie Anne Schnur, 2016 graduate in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Scientific Computing, is awarded the Founder's Medal for First Honors in Engineering.
- 4/2015 ÌýJunyi Chu, 2015 graduate with a minor in Scientific Computing, wants toÌýdevelop computational models of how we think and learn. to see her story in VU News.
- 2012-2013 ÌýSeven students graduated with a Scientific Computing minor: three from the School of Engineering, four from the College of Arts and Science.
- 12/2012 ÌýEzra Chu is the first student at ×ÔοÊÓƵ to graduate with a minor in Scientific Computing.
- 1/2012ÌýCS 204: Program Design and Data Structures for Scientific Computing is being taught for the first time this spring 2012 by Dr. Roth. This is one of the two (new) core courses in the Scientific Computing Minor.
- 9/2011 ÌýScientific Computing highlighted in ×ÔοÊÓƵ Engineering magazine: Computing: It's Not Just for Computer Scientists and Engineers Anymore.
- 8/2011 ÌýFirst course in the Scientific Computing minor offered Fall 2011: SC250 Scientific Computing Toolbox.
- 4/2011 Ìý×ÔοÊÓƵ News story about the new undergraduate minor in Scientific Computing appears: .
- 3/2011 ÌýNew undergraduate minor in Scientific Computing is officially approved.
- 10/2009 ÌýProfessors Bodenheimer, Miga, Palmeri, and Weintraub receive grant entitledÌýRevitalizing Computing Education Through Computational Science from the National Science Foundation to create minor in Scientific Computing at ×ÔοÊÓƵ.